The Irish Times view: Awaiting delivery on Sláintecare
Action plan for 2020 needs to be more tightly costed for public to maintain confidence
Support for Sláintecare needed to fix Irish healthcare system
Head to Head: Government’s short-term support for long-term plan is inexcusable
Politicians cannot afford to sabotage health reforms
Sláintecare will be best driven by concerned Irish public, not by old-style managerialism
Irish Times view on Sláintecare appointments: leadership required
Political commitment to health system reform project and spiralling health budget continue to cause concern
No surprise hospital consultants dismiss idea of Sláintecare
Plan would stop consultants treating private patients in public hospitals
Waiting lists would fall with fewer referrals by GPs, says Varadkar
Taoiseach says two fewer outpatients per GP per week would free up hospital capacity
Róisín Shortall: Stop consultants gaming healthcare system
Public patients immiserated as vested interests profit from State hospitals
Health: Sláintecare’s slow start
Report sets out a transformation blueprint for the troubled health system
Irish health service dominated by vested interests, says Shortall
Dáil debates committee report that sets out 10-year blueprint for the health system
Varadkar may have smaller majority as taoiseach than Kenny
Michael Fitzmaurice says he will vote against Varadkar while others are undecided
Health services: a prescription for better care
Test of Sláintecare will be equitable access to our health system
Finance is key to realisation of healthcare reform
Improvement of Ireland’s health system hinges on greater public and private funding
Health plan deserves better fate than the back of the drawer
Tepid response from vested interests may kill strong cross-party effort
John McManus: State should split St Vincent’s or risk creating a monster
Taxpayer-funded assets will be controlled by opaque group with deep enthusiasm for private medicine
Healthcare report ‘bogged down in ideology’, say private hospitals
Private Hospitals’ Association says State must take wider view of health assets
Extra €5.8bn needed over decade for universal health, says report
Cross-party health plan calls for free GP care and free hospital care for all
Róisín Shortall: Now Ireland can have health service that works for all
Oireachtas committee’s plan aims to re-orientate health service towards primary services in community
FG and FF insist recommendations on healthcare be amended
Committee calls for removal of private practice from public hospitals
Elimination of private care in public hospitals to be proposed
Period of six years to disentangle public and private healthcare, says Oireachtas group
Irish healthcare can be fixed if we find the moral courage
We need to move care out of private and acute hospitals into lower-cost services
Future of Healthcare committee to vote on public-private mix
Draft reports seek total ‘disentanglement’ of two systems, but FF-FG likely to resist
Our politicians will have to get better at saying no
Standing up to vested interests necessary for political system to work
FG and FF TDs block plan to abolish health cover tax relief
Independent and Sinn Féin politicians proposed ending benefit for private premiums
Committee calls for separation of public and private healthcare
Draft report recommends huge cash injection in health service over next 10 years
Miriam Lord: The curious incident of the dog in the boot
A retiring secretary general recalls a ‘Yes Minister’-style intervention
How we could have a national health service in Ireland
Consensus needed to overcome vested interests against universal healthcare
Closed operating theatres mean surgeons cannot do their work
Shocking shortage of beds in our hospitals also increasing pain for patients
Healthcare providers check technological innovation’s vital signs
Irish health services need to be realistic about technology’s effectiveness, says KPMG
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